A Pack for Winter by Eliana Lee

A Pack for Winter by Eliana Lee

My first foray into the Omegaverse, A Pack for Winter takes place in a shared universe between authors Eliana Lee and Emilia Emerson called the Cozyverse. A cute concept, there is a book for each season starting with A Pack for Autumn with the last one, A Pack for Summer, coming out in June. The first book in the Cozyverse was a New York Times Bestseller. A Pack for Winter deals with bullying and references to the death of a parent. It's also very spicy.

Ivy Winter is a 31 year old grade school teacher who has a great group of friends and parents that she adores. She loves teaching, she pours everything she can into the school and her students (sometimes to her detriment) and she's totally fine with the fact that romance doesn't seem to be in the cards for her. When Ivy finds a big aquarium that she scores for free, she can't wait to set it up for her students and gets some help from the new, super hot music teacher at the school and his adorable, also super hot veterinarian partner. She's delighted to find that the students love having the aquarium. They would be devastated if the delicate fish were to die in a snowstorm that knocks the school's power out. Which is why Ivy finds herself snowed in at the empty, cold, and dark school - to save the fish. Luckily, the music teacher and veterinarian come to save her and they've brough reinforcements: the super hot electrician that Ivy has known for her whole life.

Firstly, let me start by saying I really need to research books better before I go into them. I did not know what the Omegaverse was. I have heard of it, I know a lot of people like it, and I thought it was about werewolves. It is not. It's about people who apparently have really good noses and genetics that give them distinctions like "alpha" and "omega" and "beta". There's also some anatomical differences that I'm not going to get into here (you can email me if you have questions). But the fact that I did not know what I was getting into was no one's fault but my own. I didn't hate this book. I certainly didn't love it. The setting is cute in a Star's Hollow kind of way with an influx of festivals and everybody knows everybody. The characters were all very likeable, James was my personal favorite. The writing was okay, it wasn't great. But if you're here for plot, I'd pass this one. The plot seems to be cramming as much sex into one book as possible. If you are here just for smut, this is a great pick as long as you can get past them calling each other alpha and referring to their scents all the time.

I'm giving A Pack for Winter by Eliana Lee 3 stars out of 5. It gets a spice rating of 4, my highest rating to date. I don't think the Omegaverse is for me though, the terminology gave me a stomach ache.

For more from the author, check out her instagram @elianaleewrites

Pairs well with curry chutney and getting a battery pack for your fish tank heater.